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Ugochukwu Damian Okpara In Gorgeous Display (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- In Gorgeous Display
- Publication Name
- In Gorgeous Display
- Title
- In Gorgeous Display
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1531504604
- EAN
- 9781531504601
- ISBN
- 9781531504601
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Genre
- Poetry, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Lgbt Studies / General, General, World / African
- Release Date
- 05/09/2023
- Release Year
- 2023
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.2in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Weight
- 3 Oz
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Item Width
- 5in
- Number of Pages
- 76 Pages
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One of Book Riot's Must-Have New Poetry for Fall 2023 The remarkable debut collection by a young Nigerian queer poet. "here / i am not his image / & i envy it / i shut my eyes against what is left / the crackling softness of life / like communion / desire is a marathon / a baton waiting for your grip / here / i am not running / neither is he / i sit with a man for the first time / & we talk about war . . ." --FROM "BEAUTIFUL BOY WITH GARLANDS AROUND HIS WAIST" In Gorgeous Display , by Nigerian poet Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, is a volume dedicated to the memory of those lost to anti-queer violence in Nigeria and elsewhere. In this first full-length collection of his work, Okpara examines queer male identity, effeminacy, and exile, offering meditations on desire and sanctuary, freedom and estrangement. Forty-three poems pierce familial relationships, safety, fear, and anxiety portrayed through the outward sign of hand tremors, queer lynching, survival, hope, the emptiness of exile, and reclamation of the self. Embracing the ephemeral and spiritual nature of physical beauty, Okpara also reveals the scars of queer displacement, illuminating the ways that leaving home is never quite the utopia one hopes for and how often the ache of abandonment can haunt a life lived in the present.
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Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
1531504604
ISBN-13
9781531504601
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8059018024
Product Key Features
Book Title
In Gorgeous Display
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Lgbt Studies / General, General, World / African
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Poetry, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
76 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr9387.9
Reviews
In Ugochukwu Okpara's In Gorgeous Display we meet a son trying to reconcile a relationship with his father, his mother, his nation, and himself. Fighting against the erasures and violences of queer bodies in his native Nigeria, the poems found here are rife with searching, with discovery, with a quiet power that does not attempt to perform for the reader but rather seeks a reconciliation that is understood across oceans and cultures. Okpara unearths the way fissures shape and break us, move us and guide us, and ultimately push us towards a kind of healing that may not yet be named. This is a wise and graceful book that sits at the intersections of inter-generational time and space and serves as a suture of past and present. ---Matthew Shenoda, author of The Way of the Earth
Table of Content
Beautiful Boy with Garlands around His Waist 1 What Is Left of Us Is Made Broken and Shy 2 In Which I Sit with My Father on a Threshold 3 We Are No Longer at the Threshold 4 In Which I Sit with My Mother 6 Portrait of a Boy in Gorgeous Display 7 We Recognize This Space and All the Promises It Never Held 8 Nervous Wound 10 Just in Case I Don't Come Home Tonight 11 Logan Theatre 12 Hand 13 To the Manual Parts of my Upper Limbs Distal to My Wrists 14 I Prefer the Safety of These Hands 15 If I Die, What Would My Family Write as My Biography? 16 Portrait of a Boy with Hands Helpless 18 Boy Meets Boy & This Isn't about Love 19 What I Know about Beauty 21 Duplex 23 Orbit 24 The Face of Memory Glitters with Hope 25 Notes on Desire 26 Host 28 Diary Entry 29 Leaving Sad Things Behind 31 What Escape These Hands Can Tell 33 That Night 34 Self-Portrait as White Spaces 35 In the History of Belonging 36 All My Friends Are Terrible Photographers 37 At a Queer Safe Space in Lagos 38 The Emptiness Born Out of Escape 39 Biafra War Song 41 Ars Exsilii 42 Peace Lilies 44 At the Airport Terminal 45 Joy for Yet Another Night 46 Exile Leaves You at the Foot of Desire 47 A Ritual about Home We've Come to Know 48 Survival 49 I Practice to Get Hold of Myself 51 I Have Been Thinking about Worship 52 Prodigal Son 54 A Ruined Candle Wax Still Breathes Itself into Shape 55 Acknowledgments 57 About the Author 58
Dewey Decimal
821.92
Dewey Edition
23
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